Haroun Jamous, The Young Girls with Scarves
The autonomy of the socio-cultural field in relation to that of the political leads to a discussion of the direct links between the injunctions of political and religious authority relative to the wearing of head scarves and changes in the behavior of Muslim women. Analysis of the situation in France suggests that, given the social and cultural changes occurring among Muslim women, the controversy has served to transpose difficult personal changes onto a focus upon real or symbolic forms of domination.Jamous Haroun. Les jeunes filles au foulard. In: L'Homme et la société, N. 120, 1996. Les équivoques de la laïcité. pp. 17-23
